Uttarahalli Main Road to get more elbow room
Uttarahalli Main Road to get more elbow room
ByNaveen MenezesNaveen Menezes / Updated: Mar 14, 2021, 06:00 IST
BBMP begins acquiring 143 properties; plan might eat into Mylasandra lake
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has started the process of acquiring about 143
properties required for widening of the 3.5-km
Uttarahalli Main Road that carves out from Mysuru Road towards Aditya Bakery. The busy stretch, named after cine star Late Dr Vishnuvardhana, has become a point of traffic congestion after residential layouts started booming in and around Turahalli forest.
The proposed four-lane road is, however, likely to eat into a portion of Mylasandra Lake. It appears that the BBMP has decided to add two new lanes on one side of the road in order to help Mahaveer Lakes Apartment, which is located right opposite the water body. Acquisition of about 2,400 square metre of land property for building a road, however, violates the